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	'title' => 'I&apos;m only four entries behind now!',
	'body' => <<<END
<p>
	Current countdowns:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>4 unfinished weblog entries in <a href="/en/weblog/2016/07-July/">July</a></li>
	<li>12 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
</ul>
<p>
	I accidentally broke my language-learning streak again on the gamified language-learning website that I use.
	I&apos;m now shelving language-learning for now, as I have too much on my plate to be trying to rebuild that streak right now.
	I&apos;d been making sure to practice daily to avoid needlessly losing that streak, but with the streak already lost, their gamified system actually <strong>*deters*</strong> me from continuing right now.
	It&apos;s sort of a double-edged sword.
	Their setup makes you not want to miss a day of practicing if you&apos;ve been practicing, but also not want to start practicing if you&apos;ve already blown your streak, as starting again is too much of a commitment.
	Once I&apos;m out of school, I&apos;ll probably start again.
</p>
<p>
	I spent most of the day rehashing old memoried from July and writing up the weblog entries to go along with those memories.
	I ended up adding an amendment to <a href="https://y.st./en/weblog/2016/07-July/21.xhtml">2016-07-21</a>, as the entry for that day was supposed to state that the thief that stole my GT-i9300 wouldn&apos;t be able to profit from it due to the fact that I got the $a[IMEI] blacklisted.
	This simply isn&apos;t true though, as the thief could change the $a[IMEI] to get around that.
	I wrote up the main entry as it was originally intended to be written, but tacked on a note at the bottom explaining the error in the main entry.
	I also was reminded that I need to take better notes when I&apos;m not able to write my journal entries for a while.
	The notes to be used to create one of the entries had a very vague comment that took me a few hours of thinking to decipher.
	In the end though, I did remember exactly what it meant.
	It had to be a bit cryptic at the time, as I was afraid that the note would be seen be the wrong person, but I should have gone back and updated it later.
</p>
<p>
	It might have been possible to complete the process of bringing my journal up to date today, but I decided to leave the last four entries for another day.
	There&apos;s a lot of emotion in some of those entries, and I need to cool off for a bit before I write more.
</p>
<p>
	At about 22:00, my coursework for the coming week was made available.
	It looks like this is going to be a busy week.
	I quickly submitted my answer to <span title="Online Education Strategies">UNIV 1001</span>&apos;s discussion assignment, which asked if our respective countries place a large emphasis on course examinations and whether or not we personally agree with that level of emphasis.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
	I think that in my country, the amount of emphasis placed on examinations is largely dependent on the course in question.
	I&apos;ve taken courses in which the examinations have accounted for most of my grade, but I&apos;ve also taken courses in which the daily work played a much bigger role.
	In a limited number of cases, I&apos;ve even courses that don&apos;t involve examinations at all.
</p>
<p>
	I think that this is very fitting.
	Different subjects call for different approaches, and while examinations can be very useful in mathematics and history, they make little sense in physical education and art classes.
	You also have to take into account the medium in which the course is taught and the preferred teaching style of the professor.
	In the case of University of the People, the school is largely computerized.
	It makes perfect sense to put the machines to work, which can be done using examinations that are structured in such a way that the server can grade them.
	In a brick-and-mortar school, examinations are often on paper, and must be hand graded.
	Some professors may consider essays to be a better way to prove a student&apos;s knowledge or may find essays more interesting to grade than exams.
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>
	Next, took a <a href="http://edutopia.org./multiple-intelligences-assessment">learning style quiz</a> and reflected on the results.
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/en/coursework/UNIV1001/#Unit7">UNIV 1001: Online Education Strategies</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
	Hopefully that head start will make things a bit easier, as like I said, this week is going to require a bt more effort than previous weeks.
</p>
<p>
	<strong>*EDIT <a href="https:/en/weblog/2016/12-December/18.xhtml">{$entry(2016, 12, 18)}</a>*:</strong> I&apos;ve moved &quot;learning journal&quot; content to a separate page now, accessible from the <a href="/en/coursework/">coursework</a> section of the website.
</p>
END
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